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The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne"). For detailed information, see the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/

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The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne"). For detailed information, see the release notes:

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http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/

Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Fedora 16 brings exciting new features for desktop users, for system administrators, and for developers. Highlights of these features can be found below. If the mere mention of Fedora 16 is all you need, download options can be found at:

Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Fedora 16 brings exciting new features for desktop users, for system administrators, and for developers. Highlights of these features can be found below. If the mere mention of Fedora 16 is all you need, download options can be found at:

Revision as of 17:53, 24 October 2011

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne"). For detailed information, see the release notes:

Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Fedora 16 brings exciting new features for desktop users, for system administrators, and for developers. Highlights of these features can be found below. If the mere mention of Fedora 16 is all you need, download options can be found at:

What's New in Fedora 16?

For desktop users

Gnome 3.2 The latest update to the most popular desktop environment brings new features, including

System Settings will gain an "Online Accounts" panel, which provides a central point for managing online accounts like Google, Facebook etc.

A new contact management application integrating with Empathy, Evolution and the new "Online Accounts" settings panel.

A new document management application, which provides a simpler alternative to traditional file management for both local and "in-cloud" documents.

KDE 4.7 The most recent version of this feature-rich desktop environment brings more than just small updates.

DigiKam 2.0 adds face detection and recognition, geotagging and more.

Updates to the Plasma Workspaces window manager (KWin) makes it better suited for mobile devices, and also adds improvements for desktop users.

The new shutdown dialog allows users with multiple operating systems can select which one to reboot to.

For developers

Twenty thousands lines in C

Perl 5.14 A new version of Perl brings many enhancements, including Unicode 6.0 support.

GCC Python Plugins Extend GCC with Python 2 and 3, without dealing with the C internals of GCC.

D2 Fedora 16 is the first Linux distribution to include the newest version of D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python.

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